Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain41
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years40
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions36
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls34
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion34
Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization33
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women33
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates30
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction29
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry25
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence23
Connectome-based prediction of marital quality in husbands’ processing of spousal interactions23
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources23
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing22
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs22
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions21
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults21
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum20
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion19
Corrigendum to: Sex differences in the human reward system: convergent behavioral, autonomic and neural evidence18
The speed of race18
Relationship between behavioral inhibition and approach motivation systems (BIS/BAS) and intrinsic brain network connectivity in adult cannabis users18
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study18
Erratum to: effects of compassion training on brain responses to suffering others17
Learning faces as concepts improves face recognition by engaging the social brain network16
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood15
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity15
Sinful pleasures and pious woes? Using fMRI to examine evaluative and hedonic emotion knowledge15
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors15
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall15
Enhanced sensitivity to optimistic cues is manifested in brain structure: a voxel-based morphometry study15
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness15
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth14
Self-oriented neural circuitry predicts other-oriented adaptive risks in adolescence: a longitudinal study14
Neural changes in reward processing following approach-avoidance training for depression14
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being14
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan13
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders13
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study13
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood13
The OXTR rs53576 impacts moral permissibility of attempted but failed harms in populations of students and prisoners13
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study13
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations12
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life12
Reconciling psychological and neuroscientific accounts of reduced motivation in aging12
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear12
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+12
Touched by loneliness—how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCS study11
Motherhood and theory of mind: increased activation in the posterior cingulate cortex and insulae11
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis11
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception11
Localized task-invariant emotional valence encoding revealed by intracranial recordings11
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem11
Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin10
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety10
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness10
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective10
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers10
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults10
Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults10
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training10
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy10
Neural substrates of shared visual experiences: a hyperscanning fMRI study10
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward10
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study10
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions10
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years9
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations9
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents9
Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals9
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model9
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing9
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex9
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name9
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults8
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: A preliminary event-related potential (ERP) study8
Self-dependent neural variability predicts recovery from depressive symptoms8
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition8
Activating the attachment system modulates neural responses to threat in refugees with PTSD8
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements8
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning8
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages8
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care8
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders8
Altruistic acting caused by a touching hand: neural underpinnings of the Midas touch effect8
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli8
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future8
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system8
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies8
Lesion evidence for a causal role of the insula in aversion to social inequity8
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation8
Relationship Match: the neural underpinnings of social feedback in romantic couples7
Reduced neural responsiveness to looming stimuli is associated with increased aggression7
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions7
Functional connectome fingerprint of holistic–analytic cultural style7
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner7
Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later7
Group empathy for pain is stronger than individual empathy for pain in the auditory modality6
The impact of stimulus format and presentation order on social working memory updating6
Multivariable pattern classification differentiates relational self-esteem from personal self-esteem6
The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression6
Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care6
Transforming social perspectives with cognitive maps6
Lacking social support is associated with structural divergences in hippocampus–default network co-variation patterns6
Mother–child neural synchronization is time linked to mother–child positive affective state matching6
Early maternal care and amygdala habituation to emotional stimuli in adulthood6
Bidirectional understanding and cooperation: interbrain neural synchronization during social navigation6
Early adolescent perceived friendship quality aids affective and neural responses to social inclusion and exclusion in young adults with and without adverse childhood experiences6
Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing6
Pupil dilation reflects the social and motion content of faces6
Empathy enhances decoding accuracy of human neurophysiological responses to emotional facial expressions of humans and dogs6
Two different mirror neuron pathways for social and non-social actions? A meta-analysis of fMRI studies6
Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison6
Brain connectivity during social exclusion differs depending on the closeness within a triad among older adults living in a village6
The social neuroscience of eating: an introduction to the special issue6
The longitudinal role of family conflict and neural reward sensitivity in youth’s internalizing symptoms6
Multidimensional neural representations of social features during movie viewing5
Neural encoding of novel social networks: evidence that perceivers prioritize others’ centrality5
Graph analysis of guilt processing network highlights links with subclinical anxiety and self-blame5
Resting-state functional brain connectivity for human mentalizing: biobehavioral mechanisms of theory of mind in multiple sclerosis5
Can the neural representation of physical pain predict empathy for pain in others?5
More than labels: neural representations of emotion words are widely distributed across the brain5
Gain/loss framing moderates the VMPFC’s response to persuasive messages when behaviors have personal outcomes5
Brain microstructural properties related to subjective well-being: diffusion tensor imaging analysis5
Tracking politically motivated reasoning in the brain: the role of mentalizing, value-encoding, and error detection networks5
Frontostriatal functional connectivity underlies self-enhancement during social evaluation5
Longitudinal change in neural response to vocal emotion in adolescence5
Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life5
Alexithymia and somatization in agenesis of the corpus callosum5
Priority of spontaneous gender categorization of same-sex faces in young adults5
Pain modulates brain potentials and behavioral responses to unfairness5
Neural processes of inhibitory control in American Indian peoples are associated with reduced mental health problems5
Maternal dopamine encodes affective signals of human infants5
Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children4
Generalized expectancy of threat in threatening compared to safe contexts4
Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences4
Fear in the mind’s eye: the neural correlates of differential fear acquisition to imagined conditioned stimuli4
Developmental differences in affective representation between prefrontal and subcortical structures4
Unpacking reappraisal: a systematic review of fMRI studies of distancing and reinterpretation4
Corticostriatal responses to social reward are linked to trait reward sensitivity and subclinical substance use in young adults4
Oxytocin differentially modulates the early neural responses to faces and non-social stimuli4
The SocialVidStim: a video database of positive and negative social evaluation stimuli for use in social cognitive neuroscience paradigms4
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience4
Decision flexibilities in autism spectrum disorder: an fMRI study of moral dilemmas4
Cultural variation in neural responses to social but not monetary reward outcomes4
Morphometry of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex is associated with eating dispositions in early adolescence: findings from a large population-based study4
Striatal–hippocampal functional connectivity contributes to real-life positive anticipatory experiences and subjective well-being4
How self-disclosure of negative experiences shapes prosociality?4
Learning from in-group and out-group models induces separative effects on human mate copying4
Modulatory role of the right VLPFC in crowd emotional perception following social exclusion4
The influence of gender stereotypical primes on the neural processing of words and faces4
Negative overgeneralization is associated with anxiety and mechanisms of pattern completion in peripubertal youth4
Taking an embodied avatar’s perspective modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a Virtual Reality and EEG study4
No changes in triple network engagement following (combined) noradrenergic and glucocorticoid stimulation in healthy men4
Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: evidence from EEG alpha band suppression3
Mothers exhibit higher neural activity in gaining rewards for their children than for themselves3
Proximity within adolescent peer networks predicts neural similarity during affective experience3
Maternal sensitivity and infant neural response to touch: an fNIRS study3
Cerebellar contribution to emotion regulation and its association with medial frontal GABA level3
A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions3
Partner similarity and social cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers3
Reduced GM–WM concentration inside the Default Mode Network in individuals with high emotional intelligence and low anxiety: a data fusion mCCA+jICA approach3
Loneliness and brain rhythmic activity in resting state: an exploratory report3
EEG assessment of the impacts of race and implicit bias on facial expression processing3
Atypical attentional network dynamics in adolescent depression during emotional movie viewing3
The effect of speech–gesture asynchrony on the neural coupling of interlocutors in interpreter-mediated communication3
Erratum to: Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study3
Association of neuroimaging measures with facial emotional processing in healthy adults: a task fMRI study3
Neural processing of children’s theory of mind in a naturalistic story-listening paradigm3
A normative model of brain responses to social scenarios reflects the maturity of children and adolescents’ social–emotional abilities3
Maladaptive self-focused attention and default mode network connectivity: a transdiagnostic investigation across social anxiety and body dysmorphic disorders3
Differentiating neural sensitivity and bias during face-emotion processing in youth: a computational approach3
Correction to: A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat3
Attention to the other’s body sensations modulates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex3
Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates3
Effects of compassion training on brain responses to suffering others3
Increased amygdala and decreased frontolimbic r esting- s tate functional connectivity in children with aggressive behavio3
Social thinking is for doing: the posterior cerebellum supports predictions of social actions based on personality traits3
Openness to Experience is associated with neural and performance measures of memory in older adults3
Low competitive status elicits aggression in healthy young men: behavioural and neural evidence3
Adolescents’ neural responses to their parents’ emotions: associations with emotion regulation, internalizing symptoms, and substance use3
The heart of social pain: examining resting blood pressure and neural sensitivity to exclusion2
Oxytocin enhances creativity specifically in approach-motivated individuals2
Brain activation during cognitive reappraisal depending on regulation goals and stimulus valence2
Relation of resting brain signal variability to cognitive and socioemotional measures in an adult lifespan sample2
Deep social neuroscience: the promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain2
How a speaker herds the audience: multibrain neural convergence over time during naturalistic storytelling2
Investigating trajectories linking social cognitive capacity, bias, and social isolation using computational modeling2
Computational methods in social neuroscience: recent advances, new tools and future directions2
Neural dynamics of social verb processing: an MEG study2
Emotion depends on context, culture and their interaction: evidence from effective connectivity2
Unveiling the neural dynamics of the theory of mind: a fMRI study on belief processing phases2
Unimpaired social cognition in adult patients with ADHD: brain volumetric and behavioral results2
Altered functional connectivity during face processing in children born with very low birth weight2
Age-related differences in interference control in the context of a finger-lifting task: an fMRI study2
Sex differences in the behavioral inhibition system and ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity2
Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation2
Neural response to monetary and social feedback demonstrates differential associations with depression and social anxiety2
Neural correlates of affective stimulus evaluation: a case-by-case analysis2
Negative emotion reduces the discriminability of reward outcomes in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex2
The impact of acute violent videogame exposure on neurocognitive markers of empathic concern2
Erratum to: The posterior cerebellum and inconsistent trait implications when learning the sequence of actions2
Anxiety symptoms are differentially associated with facial expression processing in boys and girls2
Disrupted cognitive and affective empathy network interactions in autistic children viewing social animation2
Impressions about harm are formed rapidly and then refined, modulated by serotonin2
Confirmation of interpersonal expectations is intrinsically rewarding2
Effortless retaliation: the neural dynamics of interpersonal intentions in the Chicken Game using brain–computer interface2
Grandmaternal caregiving is associated with a distinct multi-voxel neural representation of grandchildren in the parental motivation circuit2
Neural correlates of power-related postures and their behavioural consequences: a preliminary electrophysiological investigation2
One step too far: social cerebellum in norm-violating navigation2
Visceromotor roots of aesthetic evaluation of pain in art: an fMRI study2
Fathers’ involvement in early childcare is associated with amygdala resting-state connectivity2
Social support and fear-inhibition: an examination of underlying neural mechanisms2
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